4th Midterm Conference of the Research Network on Ageing in Europe of the European Sociological Association : Ageing in Europe: Agency, Citizenship and the Dynamics of Power

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://esaageing-conf.fss.muni.cz/" target="_blank" >http://esaageing-conf.fss.muni.cz/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

4th Midterm Conference of the Research Network on Ageing in Europe of the European Sociological Association : Ageing in Europe: Agency, Citizenship and the Dynamics of Power

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The major conference theme ‘Agency, Citizenship and the Dynamics of Power’ brought together topics that have traditionally stood at the core of sociological thinking, but that have not been necessarily at the heart of gerontological theory and research. Many authors now point to the contemporary struggles over the representation of older age within and beyond the realm of the social sciences. Later life and older people are represented on one hand as a quiescent minority bearing multiple disadvantages within a social status of limited agency and increasing dependency, experiencing a loss of autonomy and the need to redefine one´s role in the community and society. On the other hand, older people are also seen as a source of new political, economic, and cultural ‘grey’ power, as an influential actor in contemporary societies, shaping the contours of new policies and welfare regimes. These debates reflect the diversity of the experiences of ageing selves and the pluralities of life courses as well as of the institutional, political, and social changes with which the personal and individual experience is inseparably interlinked. These struggles lead also to the reformulation of the concepts of agency, autonomy, or power themselves and to the calling for their even more reflexive application in academic accounts of the human experience in later life. The conference brought together almost 60 scholars from 35 universities or research institutions from 13 European countries to discuss up-to-date results of empirical research and follow-up with theoretical and conceptual debates from the field of sociology of age and ageing, social gerontology and related disciplines.

Název v anglickém jazyce

4th Midterm Conference of the Research Network on Ageing in Europe of the European Sociological Association : Ageing in Europe: Agency, Citizenship and the Dynamics of Power

Popis výsledku anglicky

The major conference theme ‘Agency, Citizenship and the Dynamics of Power’ brought together topics that have traditionally stood at the core of sociological thinking, but that have not been necessarily at the heart of gerontological theory and research. Many authors now point to the contemporary struggles over the representation of older age within and beyond the realm of the social sciences. Later life and older people are represented on one hand as a quiescent minority bearing multiple disadvantages within a social status of limited agency and increasing dependency, experiencing a loss of autonomy and the need to redefine one´s role in the community and society. On the other hand, older people are also seen as a source of new political, economic, and cultural ‘grey’ power, as an influential actor in contemporary societies, shaping the contours of new policies and welfare regimes. These debates reflect the diversity of the experiences of ageing selves and the pluralities of life courses as well as of the institutional, political, and social changes with which the personal and individual experience is inseparably interlinked. These struggles lead also to the reformulation of the concepts of agency, autonomy, or power themselves and to the calling for their even more reflexive application in academic accounts of the human experience in later life. The conference brought together almost 60 scholars from 35 universities or research institutions from 13 European countries to discuss up-to-date results of empirical research and follow-up with theoretical and conceptual debates from the field of sociology of age and ageing, social gerontology and related disciplines.

Druh

M - Uspořádání konference

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-20873S" target="_blank" >GA16-20873S: Stárnutí na venkově: nezodpovězené otázky environmentální gerontologie</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Místo konání akce

Brno

Stát konání akce

CZ - Česká republika

Datum zahájení akce

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Datum ukončení akce

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Celkový počet účastníků

55

Počet zahraničních účastníků

44

Typ akce podle státní přísl. účastníků

EUR - Evropská akce